Irrational panic!!!

Glad I am not alone having "extras", I "collect" kitchen rolls it seems, must be a 1940,s thing.Keep on collecting ladies, it might come in useful one day!

Thank goodness for you, travelsafar. I was beginning to think I was out on a limb here by no longer being a hoarder. The thread also makes me aware of what a success I've had in offloading. Stockpiling is such hard work and just money lying on shelves. My laziness seems to win over everything. Almost nervous to admit this but I don't even know how to record from TV. I just do I-player. Dearie me...........

I'm a 1947 er. Nice to know there are others out there who have the post war habit of buying when it's available and never going short. Somehow we must have learned this at our mothers knee, don't you think? Like others, we live a couple of minutes walk from an Asda Local which hardly ever closes - in waking hours anyway.

My mil when she died had half a garage full of bio tex which she bought whilst on offer. I think though that she was allergic to the stuff....

I am a 1944er but am so glad that so many of you who also keep well stocked cupboards like me. My daughter thinks I am very odd but I do know I can always feed any surprise guests. It doesn't stop at food and toilet rolls but to stationery too. Selotape, envelopes, pens, you name it and I have it. I have a huge stock of mechanical pencils as I am a giant sudoku addict which also means have plenty of paper and printer ink in stock.

Does anyone else remember the toilet roll shortage? It was impossible to find toilet rolls in the shops - yet my sister assured me that they were being stockpiled (she worked for a transport firm at the time) and when they came back on the shelves the price had gone up quite dramatically.

It was a long time ago but I well remember it!

When I was working, my husband phoned me one day and told me there was a world shortage of rice.
Thinking, I must shoot out in my lunch hour to stock up on it, he then proceeded to tell me it was all stored in our garage!

I'm a 48er so I wonder what it is? I have a cupboard FULL of biscuits, another of crisps, another of sugar, tea etc. But the tins! I'm too embarrassed to count the tins of tomatoes and baked beans etc. I must have 30 tins of tomatoes, and when I went shopping yesterday, I popped another four pack in! I had to completely reorganise the cupboard and I'm worried the shelf will collapse. As for cleaning products, shampoo and conditioner....... I remember my mums cupboards with hundreds of bags of sugar and packs of tea, she wasn't happy unless it was stuffed with 50 bags!

I've just thought, my DGD calls my sweet cupboard the "double cupboard" for some reason, it too is stuffed to the gunnels with sweets, chocolate, lollies, mints etc. I cleared that out last night before I'd even read this thread and I've given three full old Celebrations tins away. I also sorted the dog's cupboard (!) out and there's another Celebrations tin full of dog treats ready for my son's dog! I'm hopeless.

I'm exactly the same with the Sky box, it seems to never get more than 41% free no matter how much I delete, but a lot of it is football games that must not be deleted!

Always have a couple of spare tins of kitchen stuff and cleaning ( self and house ) products. What I really love is going to BM's or pound stretchers once a month ( not on a shop day ) and buying lots of different kinds of above, just to have in , just in case - hee hee - live on own and I'm a 49er

No biscuits, no sweets!
I would just eat them.

ps DH informs me that there could be a shortage of olive oil soon as there has been a bad harvest

Panic, rush to the shops .....

Born in 1948, I collect odd elastic bands, bits of strings, jam jars - always thought it was from watching and absorbing what mum did. the question is will the next generation copy us?

I feel I have an excuse for hoarding. I live in the country and the last time we had heavy snow (how many years ago was that!!!) I was snowed in for 10 days - so just in case it happens again I keep stocks of things (yes I know it is almost June but you never know with UK weather!)

I think it makes perfect sense to bulk buy when things are on offer. I only ever buy certain items when they are reduced & then buy enough to see me through until next time.

I used to know a woman who had a 'stock cupboard'. Her Mum had given her a box of 'essential items' when she got married & told her never to let it go down. Sounds OK in principle but I well remember being there when her husband came in & asked if he could have a corned beef sandwich & she told him NO as she only had 3 tins & that was her stock so he would have to wait until she bought a 4th!! Totally mad. They divorced not long after- she was a bit odd!

So good to read this thread! Mr H thinks I'm a lunatic for my stockpiling habits, but I'm only happy when there isn't an inch of room in freezer! I open my kitchen cupboards gingerly in case I'm clouted by a bag of rice, and I have more bleach than you can shake a stick at! Hoarders unite!!!

Sorry am 1943 and out of step. Visiting my Mum of 93 am horrified of the stores that will never be used so have an aversion to hoarding. Will cook in batches to freeze, that is all . If there is no olive oil buy pure rape seed oil, better for you and the country, as Brexit looms perhaps we will have to think in different ways. Think of ingredients we do grow, cook that way, perhaps? You never know we might be a movement to prevent food waste. Was stunned when discussing beetroot and chocolate cake and courgette cake that a female friend asked where they sell them, have we become so bereft of acumen? Keep nothing you have not used in a year?

27 toilet rolls under the bed and a whole box of those spray things that make the house smell nice..........I do have trouble getting out to the shops but it is becoming ridiculous here.

Earlier today I checked that we had a spare liquid hand soap to find we had about 12 spares. My huge bathroom cupboard must have about forty towels of varying vintages, in my airing cupboard I have back-ups for the spare sheets - dozens of them! Forty bottles of wine I noticed yesterday. How will I cope with the inevitable downsizing (in the dim distant future) to a house with minimal storage???

My family call it the Armageddon cupboard - they say they know where to head to in a moment of crisis.

Yes yes yes Kitty! I have my own 'shop' in an out building. Stocks everything from tinned goods, wine, beer, tea, coffee, long life milks, laundry & cleaning sundries, dried goods. Everything! I only buy when good offers on like 2 for 1 etc. I came from a background of neglect & hunger.

My DMIL left food stocks in her cellar that could have kept the family going for a year, if we'd overlooked the fact that the vast majority were many years out of date, or predated the dating system, and a lot of the tins had blown.

Despite my best intentions, eating from our well stocked freezers can be a bit of a lottery. Those pumpkin soup/orange sorbet/curry sauce conundrums have bitten me on the bum a few times.

Maggie - that has happened to me too! I now put the tupperware containers in freezer bags and label them, although when I have made so much soup it becomes a bit of a chore!

Exactly, Oldwoman70. When I've spent hours making the stuff, I just throw it in with the best of intentions to label it later....

Be a tad careful with the rapeseed - they put seven different spraying over the plants - all types of herbicides and fertilisers etc - and much of it goes through into the flowers and therefore seeds. The pollen is absolutely dreadful for giving people allergies - and this last spring was particularly bad.

I think they may well have shortage of good French red wine this year - many of the plants around Bordeaux looked dead when we drove through a couple of weeks ago and I saw a report that they are thought to have lost a million pounds worth of wine this year.

A few years ago I saw an article in the paper about and old man who had kept a tinned chicken in the pantry since 1950. I remember that those tins contained a whole chicken. He was planning to eat it and the picture showed his grandchildren crying and pleading with him not to eat it. I don't know what the outcome was, but we frequently have to eat very old tins of food that I have stockpiled and we have never come to any harm.

I have 4 freezers and 3 fridges which are usually full. Only one double cupboard for tins and jars though. We live in the country a long way from shops so a bit of an excuse there. I was born well after the war and definitely didn't learn this from my mother. We had no fridge or freezer, just a cellar and a "meat safe". Ingredients for meals were bought on the day from the corner shop. Only dried foods in the cupboards and not much of those.